#27, 1964

Catalog #29

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and date lower right - KB64
Date: 1964
51 x 38 in.
7002949
Provenance:

Collection of Richard C. Cronin (acquired directly from the artist, 1973);
[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Private Collection, Malibu, California (acquired directly from the above, 2004).

Exhibition History:

New York, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Responsive Eye, February 23 – April 25, 1965. Also exhibited:
St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Art Museum;
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum;
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum);
Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art.

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Paintings from 1950-1965, January 10 – April 10, 2004.

References:

Seitz, William C. “The New Perceptual Art.” Vogue, 15 February 1965.

Nelson, Harold B., et al. Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950-1965. West Hollywood, California: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2004, plate 25, reproduced in color on page 39.

Armstrong, Elizabeth, et al. Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury. Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, 2007, reproduced in color on page 98.